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Is youtube-dl dead? #30267

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emcodem opened this issue Nov 24, 2021 · 6 comments
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Is youtube-dl dead? #30267

emcodem opened this issue Nov 24, 2021 · 6 comments

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@emcodem
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emcodem commented Nov 24, 2021

A user of our forum

https://ffastrans.com/frm/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1307

noticed us that there were no more changes in this repository since half a year which indicates that there is something wrong. He also pointed to a heavily maintained alternative: https://github.com/yt-dlp which seems to be a heavily maintained fork.
Is this original youtube-dl repository dead and should we maybe switch to the linked one?

@dirkf
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dirkf commented Nov 24, 2021

Duplicate of (eg) #29965 where the issues are discussed at length (or ad nauseam, if you prefer).

@ghost
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ghost commented Nov 25, 2021

Google shut down youtube-dl behind the scenes.

@Ashish0804
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Is youtube-dl dead?

No

@fcore117
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fcore117 commented Dec 2, 2021

I do not see any fix or commits that backs this claim. From my standpoint yt-dlp is currently that is highly active for now until ytdl returns.

@dirkf
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dirkf commented Dec 2, 2021

Either it's dead, or it might return ...

Probably the best answer in the context is that it's resting after a long squawk.

But this is still a duplicate of #29965.

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dirkf commented Jan 29, 2022

Closed by #30568.

@dirkf dirkf closed this as completed Jan 29, 2022
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